I Want to Destroy America

I Want to Destroy America

Infobox Film | name = I Want to Destroy America: The Atomic Music of Hisao Shinagawa


caption =
director = Peter I. Chang
producer = Mitch Cullin
writer =
starring = Hisao Shinagawa
music = Hisao Shinagawa
cinematography = Peter I. Chang
Mitch Cullin
Masahiro Sugano
editing = Peter I. Chang
distributor = Pathfinder Pictures
released = 2006: film festivals; June 3, 2008: DVD
runtime = 66 minutes
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = |

"I Want to Destroy America" is a documentary film by Peter I. Chang which traces the life of the Japanese musician Hisao Shinagawa [ [http://homepage.mac.com/norimutsu/hisao/2222.html Japanese bio] ] through his early years as a folk singer in Tokyo to his current occupation as a street performer in Los Angeles.

The film was shot from 2004 to 2006 [ [http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/33623/i-want-to-destroy-america/ DVD Talk] ] , and provides a unique insight into the influence of Western popular music on the teenage youth culture of 1960s Japan, as well as an inside look at Shinagawa's struggle to survive as a songwriter after losing his recording contract in the 1980s. The title of the film comes from an off-hand comment Shinagawa makes about wanting to destroy the U.S. system.

In his review of the DVD release, critic John Wallis notes, "I Want to Destroy America" is formatted with Hisao speaking for himself. Interview audio and footage is placed over still and stock footage and the modern footage, some of it fly-on-the-wall, some of it atmospherically staged," [ [http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/33623/i-want-to-destroy-america/ DVD Talk] ] and concludes that the film is an "interesting portrait of an outsider artist who has lead an amazing life. Hisao Shinagawa is strange, passionate, and one of those people who lives his life on his own offbeat terms." [ [http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/33623/i-want-to-destroy-america/ DVD Talk] ]

Film Festival Screenings

Under its original title of Life in G-Chord [ [http://audience.withoutabox.com/films/lifeingchord Audience Without A Box] ] , the film was submitted to and selected for the Atlanta Underground Film Festival [ [http://www.badlit.com/?p=357. 2006 AUFF] ] and the Santa Fe Film Festival in 2006 [ [http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/53446.html A rock 'n' roll dream that won't die] ] .

DVD Release

The film was acquired for DVD distribution by Pathfinder Pictures in 2007 [ [http://www.pathfinderpictures.com/homevideo00.html#america Pathfinder Pictures] ] .

DVD Specs

*Digital transfer, letterbox presentation [ [http://www.amazon.com/Want-Destroy-America-Hisao-Shinagawa/dp/B001659HDY Amazon] ] [ [http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?r=1&EAN=825307918595&ourl=DVD%2FI%2DWant%2Dto%2DDestroy%2DAmerica%2DThe%2DAtomic%2DMusic%2Dof%2DHisao%2DShinagawa%2FPeter%2DI%2DChang Barnes & Noble] ]

*"Scene Index"
**"Main Feature: I Want To Destroy America"
***1. Chapter 1 [8:47]
***2. Chapter 2 [9:28]
***3. Chapter 3 [10:07]
***4. Chapter 4 [8:42]
***5. Chapter 5 [5:43]
***6. Chapter 6 [8:13]
***7. Chapter 7 [12:10]
***8. Chapter 8 [2:51]

*"Extras"
**"Outtakes"
***Alternate Ending
***Jackson Browne
***Hisao Speaks
***That's What It Is
***Hisao Sings
**"Soundtrack"
***Lovin' You (2005)
***Yabara, Misumi, Nihon-kai (2002)
***Rai (Reasons For) (1972)
***Six Budda Statues (1979)
***Give Me Water Please (1979)
***What's Life For (1972)
***To The North (1979)
***Uta No Tame Ni Woody Guthrie (19720
***Oh My Love Yamato Nadeshiko (1979)
***The God Hisao Shinagawa (1996)
***Stray Dog (1979)
***I Wish I Could Yodel (1979)
***When The Roses Are Blooming (1979)
***Wires (1984)
***Happy Weirdo (1983)
***More Money More War (1981)
***Human Computer (1984)
***Lonesome Buddha Statue (1992)
***Baa Baa Baa (Me Me Me) (1999)
***Rock 'N' Roll (2006)
***Life In A G-Chord (1999)
**"Biographies"
***Director
***Producer
**"Trailer"
**"Still Gallery" (Slideshow)

External links

* [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:434947~T0 All Movie Guide]
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=N7t4UVWxv04 Theatrical Trailer]
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=58728791 Hisao at myspace]
* [http://www.redroom.com/publishedwork/i-want-destroy-america-dvd-2008 I Want to Destroy America, AKA Life in G-Chord]
* [http://www.eyefromthesky.net/mp4/work_hisao.html Masahiro Sugano's HISAO]
* [http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/33623/i-want-to-destroy-america/ DVD Talk review]

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